ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,952, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Toyota Research Institute Inc. (Los Altos, Calif.), Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Cross-attention decoding for volumetric rendering" was invented by Vitor Guizilini (Santa Clara, Calif.), Rares A. Ambrus (San Francisco), Jiading Fang (Chicago), Sergey Zakharov (San Francisco), Vincent Sitzmann (Cambridge, Mass.), Igor Vasiljevic (Pacifica, Calif.) and Adrien Gaidon (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods described herein support enhanced computer vision capabilities which may be applicable to, for ...